Matthew Mcdole
Global Chief Technology Officer at Yum! Brands
Frisco, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Mcdole is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years delivering large-scale engineering organizations and product platforms from mobile to eCommerce. He has a track record of driving change through both process and architecture, rising through hands-on senior engineering and mobile roles to global CTO positions at Yum! Brands and State Farm. Comfortable directing globally dispersed teams, he also dives into code—his open-source contributions to the gofeed library show a pragmatic attention to robustness and real-world interoperability (non-UTF8 feeds, CDATA, io.Reader). Based in Frisco, Texas, he combines enterprise-scale transformation experience with an engineer’s eye for parsing edge cases and improving test coverage. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical debt into measurable efficiency and product velocity.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Central Missouri
English
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Github Skills (30)
atom-editor10
parserator10
rss10
parser10
timer10
go10
delegates10
golang10
architecture9
web-application9
assembly9
algorithm9
datetime9
asp-net-mvc9
language-agnostic9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mmcdole/gofeed
Apr 2016 - Mar 2021
Parse RSS, Atom and JSON feeds in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 16 reviews, 42 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew focused on improving the parsing capabilities of the `gofeed` library for RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds written in Go. They added the ability to parse the atom language attribute, switched the library to use the io.Reader interface for broader compatibility, and fixed encoding and CDATA parsing issues. They also implemented changes to correctly handle non-UTF8 feeds and updated test coverage to improve the library's robustness.
golangrssfeedsrss-readerrss-feed
mmcdole/runes
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 48 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 3 months
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